On 09-02-08, JOHN MASSEY said to ALL:


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>
> So why not bring the speed limit back to 55, like it was when I first
> started driving in the mid 70's?
>
> Easy answer: Car makers like selling cars that appeal to little boys who
> want to "go fast! Zoom zoom zoom," and oil companies adore
drivers that
> drive fast, and buy more and more gas.


JM>What's the problem with that?


A better question is.....what business is it of anyone's what a person chooses
to drive?


I drive a 1978 Oldsmobile. I might get around 10 or 12 miles to a gallon. I've
had it since my mother-in-law died (about five years now).


Every once in a while someone will look at me getting into or out of it in a
parking lot and ask me why I don't drive a car that gets better gas mileage.


I just tell them `buy me one and I'll drive it!' That usually ends the
conversation.


An even better question would be `why doesn't *someone* get a job with a `car
maker'......and give that car maker the benefit of all that sage know-how they
think they've got as to what the American driving public would buy.





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